What Remains: A Photographer’s Walk Through Lebanon’s Ruins
A floral teapot with its top blown off. A stuffed animal coated in grey dust, sitting upright like it’s waiting for someone. A serving tray that says Sweet Days on it. A box of pediatric vitamins. A kid’s green toy car, about the size of a finger. UNO cards scattered between chunks of concrete. An English-Arabic dictionary, open, pages warped and dirty.
The Orwell Prize winning Irish journalist Sally Hayden has been walking through what’s left of Lebanese homes, documenting the aftermath of enemy airstrikes in the ongoing war on Lebanon. This week, she shared the series with a simple caption: “Things I have seen in the rubble of Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon in the past week, part one.”
The images don’t need much else.
Once cherished in someone’s home, these objects are now all that remain of lives upended.
Lebanon’s Ministry of Health puts the death toll at 1,039 people since March 2, with 2,876 injured. More than a million have been displaced across the country.
